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AI-generated novels are here, but they hardly spell the end of fiction.
The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.
In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.
László Krasznahorkai’s latest novel reflects on the power of the surveillance state through the perspective of a librarian who wishes to lock up all books.
In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.
Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”
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